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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Commodus| > RS94103
Commodus, March or April 177 - 31 December 192 A.D.
|Commodus|, |Commodus,| |March| |or| |April| |177| |-| |31| |December| |192| |A.D.|, This type commemorates Commodus' accession largesse for the beginning of his sole reign. Liberality holds in her right hand a counting board on which are cut a certain number of holes. These boards were used to quickly count the proper number of coins or other items for distribution to each person. It appears they were held over a container, covered with coins and the excess swept away back into the container. The proper number of coins would fill the holes and then would be dumped out to the recipient. On coins, this symbol indicated the prince had given to the people money, grain, or other articles of consumption. Liberalitas holds a cornucopia to indicate the abundance of wheat contained in the public granaries.
RS94103. Silver denarius, BMCRE IV 70, RSC II 311, Hunter II 11, RIC III 36, SRCV II 5655, aVF, nice portrait, well centered on a tight flan, flow lines, light marks, tiny edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 3.147g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, die axis 180o, 181 - 182 A.D.; obverse M COMMODVS ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head right; reverse LIB AVG V TR P VII IMP IIII COS III P P, Liberalitas standing slightly left, holding up coin counting board in right hand, cornucopia in left hand; ex Numismatik Naumann auction 82 (6 Oct 2019), part of lot 1070; SOLD




  







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